robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
Are you annoyed by all the weird error handling characteristics of bash? You might wish to take a look at https://skarnet.org/software/execline/index.html or, if you desire compatibility, https://www.oilshell.org/
I would really like for more of my devices to come with this kind of documentation.
This in particular is a multimeter that belongs to my father; it was produced sometime in the late 80s in the Soviet block.
@thatonecalculator Are you asking about the software my instance is running, or the client I use to talk to it? (I personally am using the web client from my instance, but I don't have to: I could be using e.g. toot (https://github.com/ihabunek/toot) or tootle (https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle), or some Android/iOS application that serves the same function). IOW, do you want users of mastodon+toot/tootle to say "Mastodon" or "other"?
robryk
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Dragons who are librarians
-Always know of some strange, obscure tome that is exactly the book you need (regardless of whether it's the book you want.)
-Return books late or damaged at your peril, though.
-When you're walking through the immense shelves, and you see something in the dim light ahead hanging down in front of the books. You approach. Suddenly, as you get close, you realize it's a huge, scaly tail. You follow it with your gaze up to the top of the shelf to see a pair of glowing eyes staring back at you.
"You'll want to take a right at the end of this row," the dragon says. "Then go three rows down and turn left." The tail retracts back up into the shadows above the books, and with a sudden, fluid movement, the dragon is gone.
You never actually told the dragon what you were looking for.
-"Oh you don't need a library card." *growling chuckle* "I will remember your scent."
@samgai It certainly _is_ possible, because universal MPC schemes exist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbled_circuit). I would expect though that much simpler protocol should exist for this problem. Perhaps it's useful to start by considering the 1D toy problem (each of you has a real value, you want to compute absolute value of their difference, but don't want to share the sign of the difference). @alexandra
@timorl It would need to be _very_ good to make sense, because there's no such thing as atomically changing a file.
@timorl Is it only watching for changes to files that exist? Maybe I should write that version of inotify(1) that actually makes sense...
@neXtTech@nerdculture.de Also, in this particular case, deleting the "X is disabled" <div> breaks the mechanism. Maybe you can coerce an adblocker to do that? @arh
@timorl Huh? Why?
@nasser Would you say that Matrix (the IM system) is an exception, or that it's not built for interoperation?
@timorl This is the kind of thing I thought would be happening without eventual consistency in follows :/
The PeerTube instance https://tilvids.com has some of the best videos on the Fediverse, but at the end of last year a freak software bug in PeerTub...
I'm somewhat amused that I now own a noticeably loud lightbulb.
@rogatywieszcz Hmm~ u mnie ~działa (ThinkPad, obudzenie go przez naciśnięcie Fn jest liczone do LNXPWRBN:0, co jest na pierwszy rzut oka nieintuicyjne, ale w sumie chyba poprawne). Ty masz tam same zera? U mnie kolumny ze zwiększającymi się wartościami to {active,event}_count.
@moonbolt
Reminds me of writing technical texts in drama form (example I could recall: https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dialogue.html)
@IceWolf
@rogatywieszcz Popatrze na laptopie pracowym jak bede w pracy czy to faktycznie sie tam pojawia.
@rogatywieszcz Chodzilo mi tylko o to, czy nie ma np. permanentnie otwartych bokow.
@movonw I would avoid trying to charge it. If you want to, use a specialized charger for Li-Ion batteries (for example https://www.adafruit.com/product/1904). Incorrect charging of such batteries (either too high current, or too much overcharging) can cause overheating and fire (and I don't know where the ultimate protection circuitry for that battery is located -- on the battery or in the phone). It's not that hard to do the correct thing yourself (it's mostly a matter of restricting current as a function of voltage), but figuring out if the thing you're doing is correct is less trivial.
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
